Premiered This Day (1975): The Land That Time Forgot. Directed by Kevin O’Connor, and starring Doug McClure.

Born This Day: Jean-Baptiste de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (Aug 1, 1744 – Dec 18, 1829). In 1809 Lamarck published his theory of evolution (in Philosophie zoologique). Lamarck's theory found little favour among his contemporaries and he died blind and in poverty

Who was lined up to see the premiere of this movie on this day in 1993?

Born This Day: Clair Cameron Patterson (June 2, 1922-Dec 5, 1995). In 1956 made the first precise measurement of the Earth's age - 4.55 billion years. He established the patterns of isotopic evolution of lead thus creating a powerful tool for identifying lead contamination in the environment

Born This Day: Louis Agassiz (May 28, 1807-Dec 14, 1873). Swiss-born naturalist & geologist who published landmark studies on natural history and fossil fish. Emigrating to the USA in 1847 he become professor of zoology and geology at Harvard and founded its Museum of Comparative Zoology.

Man Is Still A Monkey: In 1930, the reknowned paleontologist William K. Gregory from the AMNH sat down with a reporter from "Popular Science Monthly" to talk about Man from a scientific point of view. Read the full article via my old: palaeoblog.blogspot.com/2005/05/man-...

BORN THIS DAY: WILLIAM WHEWELL (May 24, 1794 - Mar 6, 1866). He founded mathematical crystallography and developed Mohr's classification of minerals. He created the words scientist and physicist and coined word for his friends, e.g., Eocene, Miocene and Pliocene for Lyell.

BORN THIS DAY: CAROLUS LINNAEUS (May 23, 1707 – Jan. 10, 1778). His publication on plants in Systema Naturae (1735) introduced binomial classification to systematics, further expanded on in Fundamenta Botanica (1736) & Classes Plantarum (1738).

BORN THIS DAY: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930). Noted British author created Sherlock Holmes and Prof. Challenger who discovered a lost world of dinosaurs on a plateau in Peru in The Lost World (1912) and the subsequent film of the same name (1925) youtu.be/AKhP5puL1y8?...

Born This Day: Oliver Perry Hay (May 22, 1846 – Nov 2, 1930). His Bibliography and Catalogue of the Fossil Vertebrata of North America (1902) became a standard reference. In 1908 he published an ill-advised reconstruction of Diplodocus with a sprawling stance.